CO_2焊接短路过渡过程的动态分析─短路液桥的动态变化与力学测算

ＣＯ＿２气体保护焊接是一种高效、节能和低成本的焊接方法，在钢结构焊接生产中得到了广泛的应用。但也存在着诸如：金属飞溅、焊缝成形较差等问题，要解决这些问题，必须首先对ＣＯ＿２焊接过程的电弧形态以及熔滴变化情况从理论上深入分析研究。本文以高速摄影与光线示波器同步进行拍摄，记录了ＣＯ＿２悍接短路过渡中熔滴的长大、缩颈、脱落的全过程以及相对应的电流电压波形。利用影片数据分析处理系统对所得影片及记录波形进行了分析处理，得到了熔滴过渡形成金属液桥爆断瞬间的最大电流值及所受合力的大小。从理论上更进一步研究了短路过渡的机理，建立了短路过渡的模型，这对正确调节焊接工艺规范，保证焊接质量具有重大的指导意义，研究结果表明：在常规短路过渡ＣＯ＿２焊接中，抑制飞溅是提高ＣＯ＿２焊接质量的关键，利用焊接规范来调节短路频率和短路峰值电流是抑制飞溅的主要途径。     

An experimental study of impact-induced failure events in homogeneous layered materials using dynamic photoelasticity and high-speed photography

The generation and the subsequent evolution of dynamic failure events in homogeneous layered materials that occur within microseconds after impact were investigated experimentally. Tested configurations include three-layer and two-layer, bonded Homalite specimens featuring different bonding strengths. High-speed photography and dynamic photoelasticity were utilized to study the nature, sequence and interaction of failure modes. A series of complex failure modes was observed. In most cases, and at the early stages of the impact event, intra-layer failure (or bulk matrix failure) appeared in the form of cracks radiating from the impact point. These cracks were opening-dominated and their speeds were less than the crack branching speed of the Homalite. Subsequent crack branching in several forms was also observed. Mixed-mode inter-layer cracking (or interfacial debonding) was initiated when the intra-layer cracks approached the interface with a large incident angle. The dynamic interaction between inter-layer crack formation and intra-layer crack growth (or the so-called “Cook–Gordon Mechanism”) was visualized for the first time. Interfacial bonding played a significant role in impact damage spreading. Cracks arrested at weak bonds and the stress wave intensity was reduced dramatically by the use of a thin but ductile adhesive layer.     

The Peculiar Dynamics of Cavitation Bubbles

Details from cavitation bubble dynamics are reported: jet formation, counterjet formation, shock wave radiation and light emission. Multiple shock wave radiation from single bubble collapse with jet formation could be time resolved by high speed photography with 20 million frames per second. An explanation of counterjet formation is given. Pictures of the light emission (sonoluminescence) in acoustic cavitation are presented.     

Experimental and FEM study of windshield subjected to high speed bird impact

Both experimental and finite element model (FEM) results are presented for the dynamic strength behavior of windshield subjected to bird impact. The experimental data taken from a series of high speed photographs are compared with the numerical results predicted by using FEM in which the windshield was modeled entirely with solid elements and the bird body was approximately simulated by an elastic-plastic material with failure element behavior. Effective plastic strain and element pressure were adopted as the failure criteria and once the pressure or the effective plastic strain of an element reached the critical value, the element would lose the tensile resistance capability completely. The deflection and stress distribution in the windshield were obtained. It is shown that the result from the finite element analysis agrees with those from the full-scale bird impact test. The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10272011)     

A new variable inclination shock tube for multiple investigations

A new variable inclination shock tube has been set up especially for the visualization of shock induced high speed flows. This device allows for the generation of shock waves of Mach numbers ranging from 1.05 to 4, moving horizontally, vertically from up to down or the opposite, or with any inclination angle. It is coupled with a suitable high-speed camera shadowgraph visualization system, and the whole facility has been realized so as to be both very easy to use and movable. We believe this example could be of interest to scientists interested in starting experiments on shock wave induced multi-phase complex flows.     

Experimental Study of the Rate of Unsteady Fluid Flow from a Prefilled Vessel

The variation of the flow-rate of a fluid flowing out of a prefilled cylindrical vessel through sinkholes with a diameter less than 0.1 of the vessel diameter has been studied experimentally. The study was carried out in both the presence and the absence of a vortex funnel around the sinkhole. In these experiments the vessel was filled in such a way that a funnel was formed only when a disk immersed in the fluid was rotated before the sinkhole was opened. The time dependence of the flow-rate is found for various initial heights and rates of artificial swirl. Four different outflow stages were detected. It is shown that for certain flow parameters there is a time interval on which the fluid flow-rate is independent of the column height. A critical rotation velocity W _0* below which (W ₀ < W _0*) an intense funnel is not formed is found. A limiting curve approached by all the flow-rate curves in the final stage of outflow is obtained.__________Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Academii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 2, 2005, pp. 113–121.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Shtarev.     

Chemical composition and antioxidant activity of essential oil from aerial parts of Teucrium flavum L. subsp. flavum growing spontaneously in Tunisia

The objectives of this study were to chemically characterise and evaluate the antioxidant potential of the essential oil from Teucrium flavum L. subsp. flavum growing spontaneously in Tunisia. The volatile oil was extracted by hydrodistillation of the aerial parts in a Clevenger type apparatus. Forty constituents were identified via GC and GC-MS analysis. β-caryophyllene (32.5%) and α-humulene (17.8%) were the most abundant components. The evaluation of free radical scavenging activity using stable DPPH free radical showed that the volatile oil exhibits a moderate antioxidant activity and reduces DPPH to 50% at EC₅₀ value of 1230 μg mL^? 1.     

A hybrid feedback control strategy for autonomous waypoint transitioning and loitering of unmanned aerial vehicles

We consider the problem of autonomously controlling a fixed-wing aerial vehicle to visit a neighborhood of a pre-defined waypoint, and when nearby it, loiter around it. To solve this problem, we propose a hybrid feedback control strategy that unites two state-feedback controllers: a transit controller capable of steering or transitioning the vehicle to nearby the waypoint and a loiter controller capable of steering the vehicle about a loitering radius. The aerial vehicle is modeled on a level flight plane with system performance characterized in terms of the aerodynamic, propulsion, and mass properties. Thrust and bank angle are the control inputs. Asymptotic stability properties of the individual control algorithms, which are designed using backstepping, as well as of the closed-loop system, which includes a hybrid algorithm uniting the two controllers, are established. In particular, for this application of hybrid feedback control, Lyapunov functions and hybrid systems theory are employed to establish stability properties of the set of points defining loitering. The analytical results are confirmed numerically by simulations.     

High speed cine observations of cavitating flow in a duct

The dynamics of cavities produced in cavitating flow confined in a duct was studied. The ultimate purpose of the work is to develop models of the flow to assist in predicting cavitation erosion and noise. Observations of the cavitating flow using high speed cine photography allowed confirmation to be made of the shedding mechanism originally described by Knapp, and measurements of the cavity dimensions to be determined as a function of time. It was found that the time for a cavity to collapse was found three times greater than expected from Rayleigh's classical theory.     

轴对称空泡流的脉动性态研究

本文采用高速摄影技术对定常来流中１／４平头轴对称体的不稳定的空泡形态特征进行了水洞试验研究。试验结果揭示了由于空泡形态断裂而产生的低频脉动现象，这一现象在跨空泡流情况下尤为明显，常使空泡长度和厚度在大幅范围内拟周期地变动，其频率特性比较稳定，有别于空泡末端局部泡团脱落而产生的脉动。